His Excellency the Governor leaves Wellington at the end of the present week, or early the next. Mr Rainford, late basso in Allen's English Opera Company, has joined Madame Goddard's Company for the remainder of her New Zealaud tour. At Mr Buckland's first wool sale of the season, held iu Auckland, on the llth instant, season long wool in grease fetched lOd, lid, and Is 4d per lb ; washed, Is 4d and Is 4£d ; scoured, Is 5d ; half-breds, in grease, and 9d ; merino, B|d i washed, 13d ; cross-bred, greasy, B|d. The Ohinemuri correspondent of the Advertiser reports that Mr Mackay has commenced business with the natives. The Maoris held a meeting at Short]and on Monday, and condemned the proclamation prohibiting the sale of land by natives to any but the Government. The Advertiser gives the followiug translation of a circular lately circulated amongst the natives:—" Hold on, hold on, hold on! wait the arrival of Sir Donald M'Lean ; he is tho principal man ; he is tho minister for the Maori sides he will consider the correct regulation for the welfare of the people. The practice of issuing licenses is very wrong j it is a treacherous proceed* ing, neither head nor tail."
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Hawke's Bay Times, Issue 1629, 17 November 1874, Page 430
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202Untitled Hawke's Bay Times, Issue 1629, 17 November 1874, Page 430
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